Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 04:49:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, nate@mt.sri.com, sef@kithrup.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More breakage in -current as a result of header frobbing. Message-ID: <199802220449.VAA15586@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199802220123.SAA22198@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 21, 98 06:23:14 pm
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> > orthogonal issue of negative reinforcement Nate focussed on, which > > had nothing whatsoever to do with the difference between trusting > > people to do the right thing vs. having the tools *force* people > > to do the right thing whether they remembered to do it or not > > Repeat. It is impossible given today's technology to force people to > make good commits w/out human intervention. Reader/writer/llama locks > do *NOTHING* (!!!!) to make people do a good or bad commit, and only > serve to slow down the process with *NO* gain. There is still no empirical proof that this is true. Once again, I suggest implementing the interface with no teeth for a month so we can see "conflict would have occurred" logs, and match them up to actual occurances of build problems. > Anyone who thinks otherwise is only showing his ignorance. But of course, hand waving beats an experiment any day of the week... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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